The George F. Baker Scholars Program emphasizes academic excellence, quality of character, responsibility and motivation to lead. Baker Scholars are upper-level students majoring in economics, ...

Panel Data Econometrics: Empirical Applications introduces econometric modelling. Written by experts from diverse disciplines, the volume uses longitudinal datasets to illuminate applications for a ...

The problem, for those concerned with social or economic policy, is that we seldom have the luxury of being able to undertake controlled experiments of the type conducted by natural scientists.

Note not all courses are taught every quarter. Data acquisition, manipulation, and visualization using statistical software, with hands-on applications to economics. Prerequisites: Grade of C- or ...

This course will provide a solid grounding in recent developments in applied micro-econometrics, including state-of-the art methods of applied econometric analysis. Some of these methods are related ...

Recent advances in empirical finance have shown that the adoption of network theory is critical in order to understand contagion and systemic vulnerabilities. While interdependencies among financial ...

As one of the social sciences, economics studies how the choices we make as individuals—as consumers and producers, as savers and investors, as managers and employees, as citizens and voters—combine ...

The Economics Department is working to create more entry-level courses focused on the applications — as opposed to theory — of economics in an effort to attract more freshmen and sophomores, according ...

As data becomes increasingly available in the fields of engineering and applied sciences, there is a greater need for advanced analysis methods in order to identify ties between problems, phenomena ...